Therapy corner

This is where product leadership meets therapy. Here, you'll find answers, tools, and insights to solve your biggest problems. It's a place to talk about your challenges and change your mindset.

Therapy corner

This is where product leadership meets therapy. Here, you'll find answers, tools, and insights to solve your biggest problems. It's a place to talk about your challenges and change your mindset.

Therapy corner

This is where product leadership meets therapy. Here, you'll find answers, tools, and insights to solve your biggest problems. It's a place to talk about your challenges and change your mindset.

01 Identify the problem

We're ending up in a swamp, perfectly on schedule

Your agile process might just be a waterfall in disguise. Discover how to move beyond predicting schedules and lead with evidence-based experiments that reduce uncertainty.

Pasi Lappalainen

September 2, 2025

01 Identify the problem

Control is a rotten fish

Learn why good intentions lead to bad outcomes when control replaces trust. A hard lesson on how bureaucracy kills innovation and why autonomy is the only path to sustainable growth.

Pasi Lappalainen

September 8, 2025

01 Identify the problem

I know exactly how to solve this

Is your powerful vision becoming a prison for your team? This is a story about how a leader's need to control every detail can destroy motivation and what true leadership looks like.

Pasi Lappalainen

September 2, 2025

01 Identify the problem

The best team is born when you stop being "efficient"

Is your team's hyper-focus on efficiency creating a culture of silence? Discover why 'inefficient' human connection is the key to building a truly collaborative and innovative team.

Pasi Lappalainen

September 2, 2025

01 Identify the problem

They were building features, not a business

Are you building features or a sustainable business? Learn the dangers of the sales-led "feature factory" and how to shift to a product-led model for long-term growth.

Pasi Lappalainen

September 2, 2025

01 Identify the problem

I didn't know who was supposed to do what

Transform chaos into creativity. Discover how clear roles create the psychological safety needed for your team to stop fighting fires and start creating real value.